16. Why abodest thou among the mishpetayim (sheepfolds), to hear the bleatings of the flocks? Among the divisions of Reuven there were great indecisions of heart.
17. Gil`ad abode beyond Yarden; and why did Dan linger by oniyyot? Asher remained on the seacoast, and dwelt by his landings.
18. Zevulun and Naphtali were a people that risked their nefesh unto the death in the high places of the sadeh.
19. The melachim came and fought, then fought the melachim of Kena'an at Taanach by the waters of Megiddo; they took no plunder of kesef.
20. They fought from Shomayim; the kokhavim in their courses fought Sisra.
21. The Kishon River swept them away, that nachal kedumim, the Kishon River. O my nefesh, march on with oz.
22. Then were the ikvei sus (horse hooves) galloping, the prancings of hooves, the prancings of their mighty steeds.
23. Curse Meroz, said the Malach Hashem, curse bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the ezrat Hashem, to the help of Hashem, against the gibborim.